Senate Votes To Hang Troops Out To Dry

J.J. Jackson* | March 28, 2007

Thanks to Senator Chuck Hagel the Senate passed their own version of a funding bill for our troops in Iraq which has a March 2008 date attached for possible withdrawl.

WASHINGTON (AP) -Congressional Democrats are showing no signs of backing down on their rebuke of the Iraq war, insisting President Bush will have to accept some sort of legislative timetable in exchange for the billions of dollars needed to fund the war.

“We would hope that the president understands how serious we are,” said Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., after the Senate voted to uphold a proposal in a war spending bill calling for the troop withdrawal.

With the Senate resuming debate on the $122 billion bill Wednesday, President Bush reminded lawmakers their move will not prompt him to negotiate, but to veto any funding legislation that includes a deadline for withdrawal.

“Members of Congress need to stop making political statements, start providing vital funds for our troops and get a bill to my desk that I can sign into law,” Bush was expected to say in a speech at the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association meeting in Washington. Excerpts were released in advance by the White House. “If Congress fails to pass a bill to fund our troops on the front lines, the American people will know who to hold responsible.”

But Reid and other Democrats say they won’t back down.

“Rather than making all the threats that he has, let’s work with him and see if he can give us some ideas how we can satisfy the wishes of a majority of the Senate, the majority of the House and move forward,” Reid said.

Isn’t it amazing how a President looking for funding to perform his duties as Commander In Chief (which Congress mandated) without allowing Congress to usurp his Constitutional duties is making “threats” as Harry Reid claims.

Do I have to remind these yummy brains in Congress (and all you moonbats cheering this vote who don’t understand or even care about the Constitution) that the only role these people have is to 1) declare war and 2) appropriate funds.

They have NO ability to tell the President how the war must be fought. But the truth is that they don’t have the nuts to un-declare the war and pull funding. So instead they usurp the Constitutional authority of other branches.

And liberal moonbats complain about President Bush “consolidating” power? Maybe you guys and gals need a to come back to reality and join the rest of us here on planet Earth.

Nothing like telling the enemy that we’ll be more than willing to leave before victory eh?

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